Clara J:son Borg is a Swedish artist based in Rotterdam (NL). Her artistic practice is directed towards ontologies surrounding the human body, its performance strategies, and political subjects. Through a non-representational movement practice and storytelling, she lets her works exist within a boundary area where human vulnerability intersects with political and social forces. She understands her work as an invitation to observe elements of interhuman relationships, social choreographies, and knowledge hierarchies.
Contact
E-mail: hello@clarajsonborg.com
Instagram: clarajsonborg
CV
Art Education
2018-2019 History of Philosophy and Science A, Online course, Umeå University, Sweden
2014-2016 MA (Cum Laude) Piet Zwart Institute, Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2013 Practical Film I, Culture and Communication, Malmö University, Sweden
2011 Sculpture and Environmental Art, The Glasgow School of Art, UK
2011 Introduction in Digital Photography, Valand Academy, Gothenburg University
2009–2012 BA Textile-Garment-Design, HDK Steneby – The School of Craft and Design, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Selected Solo/Duo Show
2023 Bearum Konsthall, show with Jens Stegger Lefdaal and Sanna Helena Berger, Oslo, Norway
2022 Elsewhere, for now, an other world project space, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2021 Like A Not-Knowing, Attent project space, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2019 A Chorographical Novel regarding Space, performance, Rum 203, Jönköpings Länsmuseum, Jönköping Sweden
2018 A practice of a flexible horizon, RET building, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2018 3,1,1,1 a Lecture performance, collaboration with Michelle Mantsio, Yellow Brick, Athens, Greece
Selected Group exhibitions / Performance
2024
A liaison to a life no longer ordered from above, Catalouge, Paradise, Den Haag
Aeon and SAND, Hotel Pupik, Scheifling, Austria
SAND, Echraum, Vienna, Austria
SAND, at another world, hosten by Hedvig Koertz, Rotterdam The Netherlands
Aeon, Liverpool Indie Awards, Liverpool, UK
Aeon, BioCafé Tellus, Fet Film, Stockholm, Sweden
Aeon, screened in the film program Here, the levels, Fine Art Festival, Quatier, den Haag, The Netherlands
2023
IMAGO, Salón Acme No.10, Mexico City, Mexico
IMAGO, Fet Film, Stockholm, Sweden
A liaison to a life no longer ordered from above, Baerum Konsthall, Oslo, Norway
2022
A liaison to a life no longer ordered from above, WILD OUT VIDEO FESTIVAL, Taiwan
A liaison to a life no longer ordered from above, TENT Online Cinema, TENT, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
A liaison to a life no longer ordered from above, PRAKSIS Presents, PRAKSIS OSLO, Norway
A liaison to a life no longer ordered from above, IMAGO and Two Skies, W139, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
A liaison to a life no longer ordered from above, Tranås at the Fringe, Tranås, Sweden
2021
A liaison to a life no longer ordered from above, Kortfilmsdagarna, Galleri CC, Malmö, Sweden
A liaison to a life no longer ordered from above, No running water, Yellow Brick, Athens, Greece
2020
Prospects and Concepts, Mondriaan Fund, Rotterdam Art Fair, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Radio 3137, commissioned by Yellow Brick, Athens, Greece
2018
Wash out, performance, collaboration with Michelle Mantsio, Florence Peel Centre, Melbourne, Australia
Wash out, performance, collaboration with Michelle Mantsio, LCI Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
August Open Studio,AADK SPAIN, Blanca, Murcia, Spain
July Open Studio,AADK SPAIN, Blanca, Murcia, Spain
June, Open Studio,AADK SPAIN, Blanca, Murcia, Spain
3,1,1,1, performance, RAAR (Rotterdam art ratio) #20 guest with texts, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
The chase to be among men, performance, 13 festivalen, Konstepedemin, Göteborg, Sweden
Awards and Selections
2024
Aeon, Nominee for Best Dance or Poetic Film, Film Haus, Berlin, Germany
Aeon, selected for Art In Motion Film Festival, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Aeon, Nominee for Best Mood Film, Yeti online Film Festival, Iceland
Aeon, Semifinalist, Best Avantgarde Film, Nocturna Online Film Festival, Brooklyn, New York, US
Aeon, Best Experimental Film, Athens International Monthly Art Film Festival, Greece
2023
Aeon, selected for Liverpool Indie Awards, Liverpool, UK
Aeon, selected for INTERNATIONAL ART FILM FESTIVAL, Birmingham, UK
Aeon, selected for Chicago Indie Film Awards, Chicago, USA
Aeon, selected for RED Movie Awards Summer Edition, Remis, France
Aeon, Nominee for Best Indie Film, Berlin Art Film Festival, Berlin, Germany
2019
Jönköpings Landstings Studio Award
Residency
2023
Hotel Pupik, Austria
2022
IMPACT, PACT Zollverien, Essen, Germany
2021
Yellow Brick, Athens, Greece
2019
Studio grant and residency at Rum 203, Jönköpings Läns Museum, Jönköping, Sweden
Institue für alles mögliches, Berlin, Germany
2018
Spatiality, residency AADK Spain, Blanca, Spain
2017
Writing as and around art, Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen, Norway
Body as a site, Banff center of arts and creativity, Canada
2016
In time, we too will become ancestors…, PRAKSIS Oslo, led and curated by Eliza Naranjo Morse and ICDP, Oslo, Norway
2015
Materials for performance, CSAV XXI – Artist Research Laboratory led by Yvonne Rainer and Andrea Klein, Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como, Italy
Kunstlerhüser Worpswede, Woprswede, Germany
Scholarship/Grants
2023
Project grant, CBK Rotterdam
2022
Project grant, Mondriaan Fonds
Filmcentrum Syd, Production support
Stichting Niemeijer Fonds
2021
Corona Regulation Grant, Mondriaan Fonds
Droom en Draad
PPR, CBK Rotterdam
2020
Gemeente Rotterdam cultural development grant
2019
Gemeente Rotterdam cultural development grant
Jönköpings Läns Museums Studio Grant
2018
O&O, Ontwikkeling- en Onderzoekssubsidies, CBK Rotterdam
Young Talent, Mondriaan Founds
2017
IBB, CBK, Rotterdam
Van Beek-Donner Stichting
2016
IBB, CBK Rotterdam
Banff Artist’s Award, Banff Centre for arts and creativity
Praktijkverdieping, Mondriaan Fonds